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Time to be responsible. First step? Watching this video.
Transcript
- 00:00
Being responsible a la shmoop. Meet happy Hipperson this guy doesn't
- 00:08
have a care in the world, his daily routine consists of eating sleeping and [Happy eating Fritos]
- 00:12
partying the rest of the time. Okay so his definition of partying is pretty [Happy asleep with a hat on]
- 00:16
much just lounging around on the couch and eating Fritos but different strokes
- 00:20
you know. He scoffs at his older brother Jared who has to put on a suit and tie [His brother looking angry and walking away in a suit]
Full Transcript
- 00:25
every day and go to one of those those job things he shakes his head and his
- 00:29
sister Candice who always feels the need to follow the rules checking in with [Candice talking to her parents]
- 00:33
mammy and Pappy Hipperson anytime she's gonna be home late. Always getting her [Cadince working on her homework]
- 00:37
homework done on time eating right exercising could she be any more boring [Candice doing exercises]
- 00:42
nope for happy this is the life. No responsibilities no bills to pay no
- 00:47
supervisor to report to no restrictions on his partying / lounging time... [Happy dreaming of eating Fritos and lounging around]
- 00:52
Uh oh, Mammy and Pappy have that look in their eyes again, oops looks like Happy's being [Happy being kicked out the house]
- 00:56
given the old heave-ho not to be confused with the new heave-ho which is [Scientists working on the Heave Ho 2.0]
- 01:00
still being beta tested.. Happy's parents have had it up to here [Fingers point to the parent's shoulders]
- 01:04
higher, yeah right about there, with their freeloading irresponsible offspring his [The fingers move up to their heads]
- 01:09
aunt Maude refuses to take him in and after about three days on the streets [Happy looking for a place to stay]
- 01:12
with nothing to eat and nowhere to go happy finally find sufficient motivation
- 01:16
to get his butt in gear. Suddenly happy has to actually find a way to survive in [Happy finds an angel]
- 01:21
the real world but he finds out real fast that in the real world the [Sign for Abe's Demolition looking for workers]
- 01:25
responsibility is kind of a big deal and not having any schooling or training to
- 01:30
point to and it's gonna hurt because he was never responsible about his school [Happy's bad report card]
- 01:34
work happy didn't exactly get the best grades so going to a top-notch college
- 01:38
or getting a high paying job are pretty much out of the question instead he has [Office with lots of money on the floor]
- 01:42
to apply for a minimum wage gig which he gets because well why not give the young [Happy in a fast food restaurant]
- 01:47
kid a shot but which he then loses because he shows up late his first day
- 01:51
on the job he learns his lesson the second time around and shows up every [Happy holding a bucket and brush]
- 01:55
day at 8 a.m. on the dot for his new job as a car wash squeegee guy but he has
- 02:00
dreams of moving up to assistant squeegee guy one day [Happy dreaming of becoming an assistant]
- 02:05
and someday maybe for the TSA he could well nevermind. He starts renting a small
- 02:10
studio apartment that he shares with a handful of cockroaches none of whom [Happy in bed with cockroaches crawling all over]
- 02:13
unfortunately chip in on the rent. Of course the apartment doesn't last
- 02:16
long either because after missing his first two rent payments happy is back on [Happy looks shocked the roaches didn't pay their rent and is kicked out by the landlord]
- 02:20
the streets he tries and fails to get a car
- 02:23
he has no co-signers and no one will give him a loan so he has to walk in his
- 02:28
worn down sneakers every day between his job and his cardboard box du jour, oh [Happy walking in ruined shoes]
- 02:34
people don't let this happen to you... Eventually his boss tires of his
- 02:37
appearance and his smell in cuts happy loose, wow too unkempt to work as a
- 02:41
squeegee guy ouch that hurts so happy does the only thing he can do he goes
- 02:45
crawling begging and pleading back to mammy and Pappy. Well the parents they [Happy crawling into his parents house covered in dirt]
- 02:50
take him back in as they can see he's learned his lesson and they sort of love [Happy's mom looks grossed out by the smell]
- 02:54
him anyway but it's with the understanding that his unresponsibility
- 02:57
is ancient history which it is happy cleans himself up it's [Happy working in a library]
- 03:00
a halfway decent job and starts taking night school classes. He moves out and [Happy gets an A on his essay]
- 03:04
into an apartment sans the cockroaches there. As soon as he's able and pays all [The cockroaches saying they miss Happy]
- 03:09
his rent and bills on time from that day forward he takes responsibility for his [Landlord looking happy as his money is handed to him]
- 03:13
health too, starts eating better ie not a hundred percent pop-tarts and ramen [Corn and pomegranates fall down]
- 03:17
noodles and gets up off the couch on a regular basis when all said and done [Happy exercising]
- 03:21
taking responsibility didn't just lift happy up in the eyes of his parents it [Happy with his arm in the air rising]
- 03:26
vastly improved the quality of his life which made happy, happy too heck he even
- 03:32
gets along with Jarrod and Candice nowadays maybe one day he'll even pick [Happy out to lunch with his brother and sister]
- 03:36
up the check. Uh, maybe not...
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